Currently there is such a cornucopia of conflicting theories in the field of addiction studies that it has become exceedingly difficult for treatment providers, therapists, and policymakers to integrate this vast field of knowledge into effective treatment. Since such a chaotic overabundance of treatment theories, styles, and definitions cloud the field of addictionology, many therapists claim their field is in need of a paradigm shift.

In the last 20 years an integrative and compound model has emerged known as the biopsychosocial model, but without a solid and comprehensive meta-framework, syncretistic confusion can result when therapists pick and choose techniques without direction or an overall rationale. To address this problem, Guy du Plessis applies integral theory as a conceptual framework for understanding addiction, as well as a meta-therapeutic framework for therapists. The integral foundation of addiction outlined in this book provides researchers, academics, treatment providers, policy makers, and therapists with a conceptual architectonic of addiction and its treatment that is integrative, inclusive, and practical.

An Integral Foundation for Addiction Treatment belongs on the shelf of every addiction treatment therapist, and anyone else who is impacted or influenced by the topic.

Would you be willing to give up your old routine way of living and give yourself the highest opportunity to live your best life for the rest of the time you have on earth?

Imagine a life of bubbling-over joy fresh hope that’s served daily – like hot bread; freedom from daunting fear; en- joying rewarding relationships; exuding captivating confidence and living in expectation of structured success That truth is contained in What in the World Are You Waiting For? and the results no longer need to be confined just to your imagination or your wish list The outcomes will be experienced in your life – practically, consistently and powerfully effectively

So, what in the world are you waiting for? Now is YOUR time to arise!

Twaalf ongelooflike vroue wat ’n verskil maak tussen die bendes, die werkloosheid en die koeëls. Atlantis is steeds die verlore stad, maar hierdie twaalf vroue se verhale inspireer.

Hulle het besluit om nie moed op te gee nie. Hulle stories is dié van moed, optimisme en inspirasie. Dit is ’n moetlees vir almal wat glo dat liefde en geloof ’n verskil kán maak.

Atlantis aan die Weskus was die breinkind van ’n vorige regering se “desentralisasiebeleid” – maar is tans die toonvenster van ontheemding. Uit hierdie wanhoop, brand dié twaalf vroue se stories soos fakkelligte in ’n lang, donker nag.

Hulle is: Francis Brown, Mary-Ann Cedras, Chrissie Cloete, Mandy Jonker, Christine Lewis, Sylvia Losper, Lenie Maya, Carol Muller, Sillene Oppel, Olivia Pharo, Mary Tenggren en Rachael Watson.

This book is primarily about securing your home against potential unwanted intruders and keeping your family safe.

"The rise in violent crime affecting my country stems directly from an increase in criminal behavior and farm attacks, resulting in loss of innocent lives in my country. The message in this book goes out to all innocent, law-abiding citizens of South Africa. It is time to take a stand and prepare yourselves against becoming victims of the lawlessness plaguing our country. The authorities themselves face great challenges, numerous obstacles, and insufficient support. As a result, we are losing the battle against all crime and, particularly, violent crime. It is now up to individual citizens to change their mind-set and become unbeatable adversaries of the criminal element.

I don’t advocate vigilantism or breaking the law in order to achieve this. What I suggest instead is that people need to develop the mental and physical skills to avoid violence in the first place and then, if necessary, use a level of violence higher than that which would be imposed on them in a conflict situation." - Craig B. Roseveare

Sluimerende rassisme het na 1994 se reenboogdroom met 'n knal oopgebars. Die rassisme-sweer is besig om dit wat mooi en uniek van Suid-Afrikaners is, te besmet. In hierdie boek word voorraad opgeneem van die situasie deur na bekendes en minder bekendes se stories en ervarings te luister, dit saam te vat en aan die hand daarvan voorstelle te maak, sodat ons mekaar se andersheid kan vier.

Van ’n vrou word in vandag se wereld baie verwag. Ons is ma’s, beroepsvroue, huweliksmaats, vriendinne en steunpilare. Hierdie dagstukkieboek is vir elke vrou wat maar alte goed weet dit is nie altyd so maklik nie. In die boek, deel bekende vroue boodskappe van hoop. Hulle wil jou herinner dat jy nie alleen is nie, dat jy nie skaam hoef te voel wanneer die lewe jou oorweldig nie, en dat jy altyd maar kan vashou aan die wete: Jou hemelse Vader ken jou.

In this unusual crochet book, each pattern is used as a base for four different interpretations, depending on your style – bohemian, artistic, classic or romantic. The patterns range in difficulty, and include pretty things for yourself, your home, babies and children, and for use as gifts. There are also suggestions for using the same pattern for more than one project. The perfect book for anyone who loves to crochet.

We either think our lives are so special that everyone should be interested in what's happened to us, or so ordinary that we can't imagine anyone would care. The truth lies somewhere in between: yes, we are all special, and no, people will not care-unless we write with them in mind. Joanne Fedler, a beloved writing teacher and mentor, has written Your Story to help all people, even those who don't necessarily identify as "writers," value their life stories and write them in such a way that they transcend the personal and speak into a universal story. She shows how to write from your life, but for the benefit of others. Filled with practical wisdom and tools, this book tackles: - mind-set issues that prevent us from writing - ways to develop trust (in yourself, the process, the mystery) - triggers or prompts to elicit our own stories - Joanne's original techniques for "lifewriting," developed over a decade of teaching and mentoring ... and much more "Joanne understands the writer's loneliness," says one such writer whose life she's touched, the award-winning author Nava Semel. "In this book she has created a menu of encouraging possibilities on how to overcome our fears and dig deep into our souls, so that our true voice can emerge."

Meet the rebels, artists, troublemakers, athletes, dancing queens and freedom fighters that shaped our past – and are changing our future.

An A To Z Of Amazing South African Women tells the stories of 26 trailblazing South African women through accessible stories and illustrations that are as bright and bold as the women they depict. From Fatima Meer to Caster Semenya, Natalie du Toit to Dope St Jude, this is a book about women who ask too many questions, who defy injustice, who refuse to take no for an answer. It is a celebration of the courage and determination of the activists, scientists and storytellers who have gone before us – as well as a recognition of the everyday heroism of ordinary South African woman doing extraordinary things.

The book takes its inspiration from the worldwide bestseller An A To Z Of Rad American Women and is the work of writer Ambre Nicolson and illustrator Jaxon Hsu, a husband and wife team based in Cape Town.

Is this book for you? Yes! Know that if you are reading this right now, it is no co-incidence; it is divine guidance. You will find something of significance within, for your highest good.

In ‘Be Aware,’ you will go behind the scenes in a personal journey of healing and transformation. Tina has shared her process of awakening in the first section, ‘My Consciousness Healing Moments’. In the second section, she provides some guidance on the transformation process that awoke her to BEING. She teaches you how to transform your life.

Her journey takes us through the after-effects of childhood sexual abuse and illness to healing, intuition, psychic abilities, dreams, thoughts, mental telepathy, meditation, relationships, career changes, spirit guides, guardian angels, and archangels. ‘Be Aware’ will gently trigger your healing and guide you through a process of transformation in your own life.

Allow this book to be the divine guidance in your journey of awakening, self-discovery, healing and transformation.

Kom loop saam! nooi die skrywer. Tel op jou kruis, en bring al jou bagasie. Jy sal agterkom dat die bagasie stuk-stuk minder word soos die reis vorder. En die kruis dalk al hoe swaarder. Maar jou bestemming heet Hoop. En hoop is die eerste lig van ’n splinternuwe dag. Hierdie reis na hoop is ’n hartsreis vol moontlikhede. Dit help jou om nuwe gewoontes aan te leer en uitgediendes af te sweer. Dit leer jou om in die spieel te kyk en te sien hoe jy vir jou medemens lyk, en vir God.

Klim op die Bant Wagon en geniet heerlike tuisgemaakte en voedsame Banting-geregte. In hierdie kookboek is daar maklike en goedkoop resepte vir ontbyt, middagete en aandete, asook trooskos vir die wintermaande en veerligte geregte wanneer die lente sy verskyning maak. Daar is selfs geregte vir Saterdag wanneer niemand voor die kospotte wil staan nie. En om alles te kroon: dekadente poedings. Gaan na www.thebantwagon.com vir nog Banting-wenke en begin jou reis na ’n gesonder leefstyl.

Jump on the Bant Wagon and enjoy delicious low-carb high-fat homemade meals!

In this book you will find easy, healthy and budget-friendly recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner – with special dishes for the colder winter months, when spring is in the air again and for those Saturdays when the cook is off duty. And to top it all off: decadent puddings without the sugar rush.

Join fellow Banters on www.thebantwagon.com for further helpful Banting tips and enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

Keen to get out there and get fit on your mountain bike but you lack the time or motivation?

Seasoned journalists & MTB riders Chris and Tim Whitfield will help you turn your weekend-warrior dreams into reality with tips on cool trails, events and advice on everything from equipment and safety to MTB lingo and fashion.

This fun handbook – packed with maps and tips – is your indispensable guide to getting out into the fresh air and to get ON YOUR BIKE …

Vrouekeur is ’n populere gesinstydskrif wat elke week ’n inspirerende rubriek deur Janine Bevolo-Manders publiseer. Die rubrieke het ’n Christelike inslag en bied raad, hoop en inspirasie. Die Vrouekeur kreatiewe & inspirerende jaarbeplanner bestaan uit ’n versameling van Janine se boodskappe, verpak in die vorm van ’n nuttige jaarbeplanner met oorspronklike illustrasies deur Rina Burger, ’n plaaslike kunstenaar, en illustreerder van die blitsverkoper ROUGE, inkleurboek vir grootmense. Dames kan boek hou van hulle afsprake, vriende en familie se verjaarsdae, sowel as om inspirasie te ontvang en hul kreatiwiteit uit te leef deur die pragtige verbeeldingryke illustrasies in die boek in te kleur. Inkleur vir grootmense is tans baie gewild! Nie net is dit ’n heerlike, verslawende, kreatiewe tydverdryf nie, maar dit het ook terapeutiese waarde.

In Vroue Na Aan My Hart val die kollig op vroue en vrouwees. Skink ’n koppie tee en skuif reg vir ’n hartsgeselsie met ’n vriendin.

Daar’s so baie om van te kies: Carike Keuzenkamp, Elize Cawood, Anna Neethling-Pohl, Michélle van Breda, Emsie Schoeman, Mariëtta Kruger, Ingrid Jones en selfs Evita. Kry ook ’n blik op die vroue na aan Hannes: sy ma, oumas, vriendinne.

Humoristiese vertellings – soms selfs lekker stout – sorg vir lekker lees en weer-lees.

There are no villains here. Award-winning journalist Paul McNally finds corrupt cops, drug dealers, vigilante residents, addicts, torturers, murderers and cops partnered with drug dealers. But no villains.

Raymond is a shop owner on Ontdekkers Road, in Johannesburg, who takes a baseball bat to the dealers when they break his rules. He systematically records in his notebook the police officers who come – all day, every day – to collect their bribe money from the dealers, and is looking for someone to trust. Khaba is a middle-aged police officer who wants a quiet life but whose demons will not leave him in peace. He is trying to regain his trust in what he once regarded as an honourable profession. Wendy is a petite, ageing police reservist who can handle an R5 rifle with confidence, but not the sadness that accompanies her in her daily life – the loss of her police officer husband, brutally murdered by a drug lord, and the addiction that has her adult son in its grip. She is looking for respect and affirmation and for her own life to have meaning.

Through different paths, the lives of Raymond, Khaba and Wendy intersect on the street as their attention is focused on the current power couple – a drug dealer named Obi and Lerato, a police officer. Seemingly untouchable, Obi and Lerato terrorise Ontdekkers, and in the process upset the balance of this already lawless world.

Crime statistics do not belong to the government, academics, specialists, or the press. They are ours: we experience and report crimes and have a right to access and understand their official record. It should not take any particular expertise to get a grasp on what we should make of the figures and graphs that the South African Police Service produces every year. Yet crime, its measurement and control, are as much political matters as they are technocratic.

While there is much that remains open to interpretation and discussion, there are some things that we should all be able to agree on, based on a sober reading of the evidence. As crime is a serious issue in South Africa, knowing what the official sources say is critical for productive debates on what we can do to make our country safer. A Citizen's Guide To Crime Trends In South Africa provides a basis on which to understand the statistics in a manner that is accessible to the general public.

Each chapter challenges a set of oft-repeated assumptions about how bad crime is, where it occurs, and who its victims are. It also demonstrates how and why crime statistics need to be matched with other forms of research, including criminal justice data, in order to produce a fuller account of what we are faced with.

The End Of Whiteness aims to reveal the pathological, paranoid and bizarre consequences that the looming end of apartheid had on white culture in South Africa, and overall to show that whiteness is a deeply problematic category that needs to be deconstructed and thoughtfully considered.

This book uses contemporary media material to investigate two symptoms of this late apartheid cultural hysteria that appeared throughout the contemporary media and in popular literature during the 1980s and 1990s, showing their relation to white anxieties about social change, the potential loss of privilege and the destabilisation of the country that were imagined to be an inevitable consequence of majority rule.

The ‘Satanic panic’ revolved around the apparent threat posed by a cult of white Satanists that was never proven to exist but was nonetheless repeatedly accused of conspiracy, murder, rape, drug-dealing, cannibalism and bestiality, and blamed for the imminent destruction of white Christian civilisation in South Africa.

During the same period an unusually high number of domestic murder-suicides occurred, with parents killing themselves and their children or other family members by gunshot, fire, poison, gas, even crossbows and drownings. This so-called epidemic of family murder was treated by police, press and social scientists as a plague that specifically affected white Afrikaans families. These double monsters, both fantastic and real, helped to disembowel the clarities of whiteness even as they were born out of threats to it. Deep within its self-regarding modernity and renegotiation of identity, contemporary white South Africa still wears those scars of cultural pathology.

In 1990 two South African mothers were faced with an impossible choice, one that no mother should ever have to make. Should they surrender the child they had lovingly raised in order to get back the baby they had given birth to?

Megs Clinton-Parker and Sandy Dawkins chose nurture over nature, simply unable to give up their two-year-old sons who were switched at birth at an East Rand hospital. Instead they decided to try to make their strange relationship work, although they lived in different cities, 500km apart. And they decided to sue the South African state, whose negligence had altered the fates of two families forever. Robin Dawkins and Gavin Clinton-Parker grew up living each other’s lives, brothers-but-not-brothers, acutely aware that their mothers’ hearts were torn.

Unable to escape the consequences of the swap, Robin decided at the age of 15 that it was time to claim what was rightfully his, adding a further twist to this bitter saga.

Het jy met te min geld afgetree om in jou behoeftes te voorsien? Of is jou situasie so kritiek dat jou maandelikse uitgawes nie meer deur jou aftree-inkomste gedek word nie? Is jy onseker en weet nie wat jy kan doen om jou finansiële posisie te verbeter nie?

Hierdie boek bied jou wenke hoe om uit jou finansiële verknorsing te kom. Dis ’n versameling riglyne wat finansiële adviseurs wêreldwyd nuttig gevind het. Die planne word in eenvoudige taal en maklik verstaanbaar aangebied. Jy hoef nie ’n finansiële kundige te wees om hulle uit te voer nie.

Since the publication of the first edition of A South African Renewable Energy Guide for Local Government, the costs related to non-renewable energy generation have increased exponentially, and coal-based energy systems have continued to generate large quantities of dangerous emissions. Conversely, sustainable energy generation has become more cost-effective, and in many instances renewables are now more economically viable than non-renewables. This narrowing gap in costs, coupled with an increased awareness of the environmental benefits of renewables, has greatly stimulated the sustainable energy market.

Over the last several years, metropolitan municipalities have engaged with innovative, cost-effective sustainable energy projects and solutions. Medium and smaller municipalities are beginning to understand the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders in the energy sector. They are learning how to work within the confines of the South African national, provincial and local policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks; how to embed renewables within local integrated development plans and strategies; how to utilise appropriate technologies and how to apply financing mechanisms and leverage partnerships for successful project delivery. It is critically important therefore that (particularly) small, medium and rural municipalities continue to explore, and receive capacity-building and support for, renewable and energy-efficient solutions

In line with these developments, this second edition provides useful information and solid examples of how politicians, city managers and government officials, in partnership with communities, can facilitate the adoption of renewable energy systems and technologies to achieve a more sustainable energy future for all.

Eczema is a skin condition that is characterised by inflammation and redness, leading to constant itching.

In this book you will get to know what eczema is, what causes it, how to treat and keep it under control, who gets it, and a help list.

It also includes tips and case studies.

What makes a woman kill? And how does it feel to share a cell with a murderer?

Carla van der Spuy visits four correctional facilities for females across South Africa and gets inside the heads of women who committed violent crimes. She visits the babies born behind bars, celebrates Christmas with the inmates and chats face to face with women who killed with knives, guns and the help of hit men, as well as a cleptomaniac and a prostitute. Women with blood on their hands.

What went so terribly wrong in their lives? And is there a person behind the criminal?

Die Koekiefles is ’n versameling van meer as 90 resepte vir koekies en beskuit wat spesiaal vir die tuisbakker saamgestel is. Die resepte is getoets en geskik vir enigiemand wat nie kan wag om hul koekieflesse en -blikke vol te maak nie. Die resepte is gebruikersvriendelik en glad nie ingewikkeld nie – enige iemand kan dus die koekies bak, nie net ervare bakkers nie. Die Koekiefl es herinner aan die dae toe ‘koekiebak’ terapeuties en ’n belangrike deel van die lewe was.